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KEY IDEAS SOURCES
Interview with Musk & Trump - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbcMO5JgEo
Musk discusses first principles analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3sBlRgzTI
Musk speaks to cabinet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9KJk_iyj5s
Cutting Twitter staff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ45lsDxL6Q
I have no problem being hated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BfMuHDfGJI
Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/burke1790part1.pdf
The Pretence of Knowledge - Friedrich Hayek https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/lecture/
MUSK’S ACTIONS
Note: Information was correct at time of recording but this is a fast-changing area - check news for latest updates
Medical trials abandoned https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/usaid-clinical-trials-funding-trump.html
Food in warehouses https://www.nbcnews.com/news/politics-news/trump-usaid-upheaval-paralyzing-global-delivery-food-medicine-rcna190565
Cuts to explainers (sniff!) https://www.theverge.com/news/613567/trump-youtube-videos-cfpb
Briefing on ‘fork in the road’ email https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/breaking-down-opm-s--fork-in-the-road--email-to-federal-workers
IRS workers https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-expected-fire-6700-employees-thursday-trump-downsizing-spree-2025-02-20/
Veteran interview https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/doge-firing-low-performers-new-employees-reality/index.html
Report from Sudan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKFEc6eJ2eg
Medical devices left inside women https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/usaid-clinical-trials-funding-trump.html
Woman died https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/us-aid-freeze-claims-first-victims-as-oxygen-supplies-cut/
Ebola prevention not fixed https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk-ebola-prevention-usaid-doge/
Mistakes montage from Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utl2uLh1wVI
Park worker interview https://x.com/PattyMurray/status/1893347814832222312
Forest workers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/us-forest-service-national-park-service-layoffs
VA cuts https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5146387-veteran-affairs-cuts-1000-workers/
NOAA https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-trump-doge-a65360a1eb2500b7d47c9c966e383f4a
Social security https://prospect.org/health/social-security-administration-could-cut-half-its-workforce/
Skylar Holden Now Trump’s Policies Could Bankrupt Skylar Holden, Lose His Farm - YouTube
US farmers hurt from US AID cuts https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/
Musk tweet https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889040746679779368
Musk unpopular polling https://www.axios.com/2025/02/23/musk-doge-disapproval-ratings-recent-polling
Latest DOGE ‘savings’ https://doge.gov/savings
Deficit spending graphic https://dailyhodl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Treasury.png